1557 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • August 10 – A precursor of the Royal Artillery Mounted Band makes its first recorded appearance at the Battle of St. Quentin with "drumme and phife".
  • Hoste da Reggio replaces Simon Boyleau as maestro di cappella at Milan Cathedral.

Publications

  • Martin Agricola – Melodiae scholasticae sub horarum intervallis decantandae (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau), music used at the Protestant school in Magdeburg, published posthumously
  • Jacques Arcadelt – 3 Masses (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Filippo Azzaiolo (published anonymously) – Villotte del fiore: il primo libro de villotte alla padoana con alcune napolitane, for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Jacob Clemens non Papa
    • Second book of masses: Missa Virtute magna for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
    • Third book of masses: Missa En espoir for four voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
    • Fourth book of masses: Missa Ecce quam bonum for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
    • Fifth book of masses: Missa Gaude lux donatione for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
    • Sixth book of masses: Missa Caro mea for five voices (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse), published posthumously
    • Souterliedekens IIII for three voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), settings of Psalms and other hymns in Dutch, published posthumously
  • Pierre Clereau – Missa Virginis Mariae for four voices (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin)
  • Claude Goudimel – Third book of psalms for four and five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Jacobus de Kerle – Motets for four and five voices (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
  • Orlande de Lassus – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Antoine Barré)
  • Jean Maillard
    • Patrem for eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), a setting of the Credo
    • Missa Virginis Mariae for five voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
  • Jan Nasco
    • Canzonas and madrigals for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
    • Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Dominique Phinot – Missa Si bona suscepimus for four voices (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin)
  • Francesco Portinaro – Third book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), also includes dialogs for seven and eight voices
  • Cipriano de Rore
    • Second Book of Madrigals in Four Parts
    • Fourth Book of Madrigals in Five Parts

Classical music

Births

  • February 15 – Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, writer and nobleman (d. 1622)
  • September 16 – Jacques Mauduit, composer (d. 1627)
  • date unknown – Giovanni Croce, composer (d. 1609)
  • probable – Thomas Morley, composer, theorist, editor and organist (d. 1602)

Deaths

  • April 21 – Girolamo Parabosco, composer, organist and poet (b. 1524)[1]
  • probable
    • Thomas Crecquillon, Franco-Flemish composer (b. 1505; possibly plague)
    • Nicholas Ludford, composer of masses (b. c. 1485; possibly influenza)[2]

References

  1. ↑ Thomas Frederick Crane (1920). Italian Social Customs of the Sixteenth Century: And Their Influence on the Literatures of Europe. Yale University Press. p. 254. ISBN 9780598508973. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  2. ↑ The Musical Quarterly. G. Schirmer. 1958. p. 197.
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